How de have talk, too, 'bout--oh-o-oo-ooo-wah!--roastin'

us alive, an' puttin' our scalp in de vigvam for de poo-poose

to play wid!"

"Well, niver mind, Henri, we'll be quits wi' them

now," said Joe, as they came in sight of the two bands,

who remained in precisely the same position in which

they had been left, except that one or two of the more

reckless of the trappers had lit their pipes and taken to

smoking, without, however, laying down their rifles or

taking their eyes off the savages.